New Jersey Herald, Newton... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

New Jersey Herald, Newton

Newton, New Jersey

From a report for the Knight Foundation

by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005

Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

2005

5.9

2004

Did not report

2003

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

Did not report

1994

0.0

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2005

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for New Jersey Herald, Newton

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

5.9

6.1

2004

N/A

6.1

N/A

How the index is calculated

The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff

divided by the non-white percentage of residents in the circulation area.

(Parity = 100.)

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for New Jersey Herald, Newton

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 97.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 42 out of 259

newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 15,945 ranks 585 out of 1,410 daily newspapers in the US.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Details on race/ethnicity

in the circulation area

and the home county

of New Jersey Herald, Newton

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.0

3,374

Black

0.9

1,014

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.2

1,334

Native-American

0.1

118

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

0.8

944

Non-white

6.1

6,854

White

93.9

106,283

Total

113,137

Home county: Sussex

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.3

4,822

Black

1.0

1,444

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.2

1,749

Native-American

0.1

140

Other non-white

0.1

113

Multi-racial

0.9

1,274

Non-white

6.6

9,542

White

93.4

134,624

Total

144,166

The home county of this newspaper is Sussex.

About this report

This third annual report for the Knight Foundation adds context to an annual survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ASNE has set a goal that

every newspaper, to help it know its community and gather the news, should employ at least one non-white journalist, and that newspapers should strive to

employ non-whites in proportion to their share of the community. ASNE's report, at www.asne.org, shows each newspaper's non-white employment, but does

not disclose how closely that employment mirrors the newspaper's circulation area.

That gap is filled by the report you are reading now. This report was not done by ASNE, but was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and

Stephen K. Doig. It shows how close each newspaper is to ASNE's goal, by comparing the newsroom staffing with the circulation area population.

The full report is at www.powerreporting.com/knight.

Notes and definitions

1. The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff divided by the non-white percentage of the circulation area's residents. Parity = 100.

2. Source for staffing: Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 2005. Newspapers report non-white staff as of the end of the previous year.

3. Following ASNE's definition, newsroom staff includes only supervisors, reporters, editors, copy/layout editors and photographers.

4. Also following ASNE's definition, "whites," "blacks," etc., exclude Hispanics, who are counted in a separate category.

5. Source for boundaries of this newspaper's circulation area: ZIP Code circulation data, Audit Bureau of Circulations, latest available.

6. A paper may define its circulation area differently for marketing efforts, or news coverage, or to set advertising rates.

7. If ZIP Codes or counties are used, this report applies a threshold: 10 percent household penetration is required to include an area in the circulation area.

8. Source for the demographics of residents of that circulation area: US Census 2000.

9. Source for total circulation: Editor & Publisher magazine, Monday-Friday average at year-end 2004.

10. Staff of non-English publications, such as the Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald, are excluded from the ASNE staffing survey for the first time this year.

Demographics of ZIP Codes

where sales were reported by

New Jersey Herald, Newton

Note that some ZIP Codes listed here may not have been included in determining the newspaper's circulation area. In calculating the Diversity Index, a

ZIP Code was included only if the household penetration was at least 10 percent. Any lower-penetration ZIP Codes are also listed here for your information.

Also, if the newspaper reported more than 300 ZIP Codes, only the top 300 in weekday sales are listed here.

ZIP / City / State / Approx. distance in miles from the newspaper's home office

Weekday sales

Households

Penetration % (daily sales per 100 households)

Median household income

Non-white
% of
population

Hispanic
% of
population

Black
% of
population

Native
% of
population

Asian
% of
population

07860 / Newton / NJ / 0 mi.

4,029

9,436

42.7

$60,904

6.1

2.5

1.5

0.1

1.2

07871 / Sparta / NJ / 9.2 mi.

2,044

6,623

30.9

$89,313

5.3

2.5

0.3

0.1

1.5

07461 / Sussex / NJ / 15.9 mi.

1,868

6,121

30.5

$59,458

5.3

2.9

0.7

0.1

0.8

07826 / Branchville / NJ / 9.3 mi.

1,272

2,130

59.7

$59,875

3.0

1.7

0.3

0.1

0.5

07462 / Vernon / NJ / 18.2 mi.

1,173

2,565

45.7

$59,187

7.2

4.7

0.8

0.1

0.8

07416 / Franklin / NJ / 11.3 mi.

968

2,111

45.9

$46,885

7.8

4.3

0.6

0.3

1.5

07419 / Hamburg / NJ / 12.9 mi.

639

2,718

23.5

$60,396

8.4

3.8

1.0

0.3

2.0

07821 / Andover / NJ / 8 mi.

636

3,068

20.7

$79,729

6.9

3.5

1.0

0.1

1.3

07848 / Lafayette / NJ / 6.8 mi.

631

1,370

46.1

$74,112

8.2

2.9

2.0

0.1

2.5

07827 / Montague / NJ / 16.3 mi.

335

1,455

23.0

$48,438

6.6

3.0

1.7

0.2

0.6

07874 / Stanhope / NJ / 10.7 mi.

314

3,327

9.4

$69,330

9.1

4.5

1.3

0.0

1.8

07460 / Stockholm / NJ / 16.2 mi.

257

1,251

20.5

$69,459

4.8

2.6

0.4

0.1

0.8

07843 / Hopatcong / NJ / 10.8 mi.

232

4,470

5.2

$64,192

10.7

5.8

2.0

0.1

1.5

07825 / Blairstown / NJ / 9.9 mi.

228

3,343

6.8

$64,970

3.4

1.9

0.2

0.1

0.5

07422 / Highland Lakes / NJ / 21.4 mi.

198

2,436

8.1

$67,222

5.7

3.7

0.7

0.1

0.4

07439 / Ogdensburg / NJ / 10.8 mi.

171

884

19.3

$60,688

5.9

4.2

0.2

0.0

0.7

07849 / Lake Hopatcong / NJ / 11.4 mi.

127

2,660

4.8

$63,785

7.4

4.4

0.8

0.1

0.8

18328 / Dingmans Ferry / PA / 15.9 mi.

121

2,394

5.1

$46,038

8.2

4.7

1.9

0.1

0.4

07438 / Oak Ridge / NJ / 15.1 mi.

100

4,162

2.4

$75,813

5.8

2.9

0.6

0.2

1.2

18337 / Milford / PA / 19.2 mi.

100

4,162

2.4

$51,525

8.6

4.6

1.9

0.2

0.6

07840 / Hackettstown / NJ / 13.7 mi.

10,227

0.9

$60,862

11.2

5.5

1.6

0.1

2.4

07428 / Mc Afee / NJ / 16.2 mi.

165.5

$56,500

6.3

4.7

0.0

07822 / Augusta / NJ / 8.4 mi.

278

29.9

$75,525

4.0

1.9

0.0

0.8

18336 / Matamoras / PA / 21.9 mi.

1,547

2.5

$40,348

5.8

2.7

0.4

0.3

1.2

07801 / Dover / NJ / 16.2 mi.

7,544

0.4

$56,082

60.1

48.8

6.4

0.1

3.6

07850 / Landing / NJ / 13.3 mi.

2,387

1.2

$66,295

13.6

6.9

2.4

0.2

3.0

12771 / Port Jervis / NY / 23.6 mi.

5,274

0.5

$36,070

11.5

6.0

2.8

0.3

0.8

07857 / Netcong / NJ / 12.6 mi.

1,373

2.0

$49,224

13.4

7.9

1.9

0.0

1.9

07480 / West Milford / NJ / 22.3 mi.

5,558

0.5

$75,691

6.7

2.9

1.3

0.3

1.1

07885 / Wharton / NJ / 14 mi.

3,842

0.6

$61,947

23.6

15.9

3.1

0.1

2.9

10990 / Warwick / NY / 26.5 mi.

6,540

0.3

$67,194

14.4

6.7

5.4

0.2

0.9

07405 / Butler / NJ / 22.5 mi.

5,925

0.3

$76,750

7.3

3.6

0.5

0.1

2.4

07418 / Glenwood / NJ / 20.8 mi.

842

1.9

$82,055

5.1

2.7

0.6

0.0

0.9

07865 / Port Murray / NJ / 19.2 mi.

711

2.3

$70,607

15.6

2.6

10.4

0.6

07828 / Budd Lake / NJ / 12.6 mi.

4,965

0.3

$60,729

19.2

7.4

3.8

0.1

5.9

07847 / Kenvil / NJ / 15.3 mi.

558

2.5

$51,750

16.3

10.5

1.7

0.3

2.8

07403 / Bloomingdale / NJ / 24.7 mi.

2,834

0.4

$68,462

7.9

4.4

0.3

0.1

2.2

07435 / Newfoundland / NJ / 19.7 mi.

797

1.4

$79,762

5.9

3.2

0.5

0.2

0.7

10969 / Pine Island / NY / 20.9 mi.

382

2.1

$46,083

9.6

7.8

0.7

0.2

0.5

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